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- Subject: Re: mental bus error...
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 06:19:27 GMT
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- joneja@pluto.ecn.purdue.edu (Ajay Joneja) writes:
- > Can anyone tell me the who "A" and "B" are in the following exchange ?
- > My feeble memory instantiated them as Oscar Wilde and Samuel Johnson,
- > with OW being (for once) at the receiving end. Can't be, though, since
- > the two weren't contemporaries.
-
- > (B had just made a funny remark)
- > A: I wish I'd said that !
- > B: You will, A, you will.
-
- It's from a Monty Python sketch (although I will admit the possibility that
- it actually happened). In the sketch, B is James McNeill Whistler, and A is
- Oscar Wilde.
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